This year, the summer feels particularly fast. The days are getting shorter, and temperatures (at least so far) haven’t been as balmy as one would expect. Yet, I still want to do so much – like go to Tropez, the unique project space in the open-air swimming pool at Humboldthain. It costs nothing to enter, just the ticket for the pool. Perhaps the highlight is the performance of the Myanmar artistic activist Zoncy Heavenly (08.06.2023) this weekend. The work No body repeats its past addresses complex and ambivalent reflections on the theme of non-violent protest. In parallel, the current group exhibition Believe runs with the works of ten artists such as Stacie Ant, Jimmy Beauquesne, Aziza Shadenova, Ghita Skali, and Broken Dimanche Press. The latter, by the way, will return to Tropez on the following two Sundays (09.07 & 16.07.2023) with their third edition of the Empathy When conversation and podcast series. Nadim Samman, curator of the digital sphere at KW, will kick things off with his work Poetics of Encryption: Art and the Technocene. On the following Sunday, it continues with photographer Jürgen Beck, who will present his book Sun Breakers, published by Spector Books, which focuses on the legendary house E.1027, built and designed by the architect and designer Eileen Gray on the coast of southern France. Looks like the summer is going to last a little longer than it’s felt recently…
Text: Hilka Dirks / Photos: Ink Agop, Juergen Beck, Tropez
Tropez at Sommerbad Humboldthain, Wiesenstr.1, 13357 Berlin–Wedding; map
Believe summer program runs until 03.09.2023
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